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New Wii features: Message Board & Play History

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It's not holographic projection, but it'll let you "email" with your Wii. Nintendo sheds light on new features:

Message Board

  • Stores user achievement data and shares it will other users of that console

  • Integrates with games to alert players of important events; e.g. "Concert next Saturday in town" (Animal Crossing)

  • Utilizes date sorting and calendar integration

  • When connected to the internet, can be linked to other consoles' Message Boards to exchange notes, data, screenshots, etc. (in other words: simplified email client)

  • Compatible with mobile phones

Play History

  • Data collection function, which cannot be cleared

  • Compiles total amount of playtime (and possibly other stats) for every game played

  • Doubles as a monitoring system for parents wanting to keep a watchful eye on their kids' gaming habits

  • Will be used by Nintendo (with user consent) to pool data into useful statistical categories; i.e. "most played game of the year"